that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid. >> shepard: they are calling it a major break in the fight against the taliban. tonight, what it means, big picture. i'm shepard smith. the this is fox news. >> shepard: coalition forces now fighting their way deeper into taliban territory. and even as they move through marjah, we're learning new details about how forces right across the border took down a top taliban commander. so, what do you do with a man who is said to be a buddy of bin laden and a friend to some of the world's most wanted? plus, they were singing during a sunday service when a gunman opened fire. [gunfire] >> tonight, the hunt for the california church shooter. and development in the desperate

effort to save a man who fell into an active volcano. but, first from fox tonight, what could prove to be a tremendous development in the fight against terrorism and specifically the taliban. we're now hearing the taliban's top military commander is talking to interrogators in pakistan days after security teams captured him. pakistani intelligence sources reportedly worked with the cia to take him down in pakistan's port city of karachi. they apparently grabbed him some time last week but kept the news quiet until now. we're told now that pakistani and american intelligence officials are interrogating him and if he is cooperating, his information could be invaluable. he is the number two man in the whole of the taliban. the biggest get, no doubt, since this war began nine years ago. the guy at the top captured. in fact, in the terror group's hierarchy, is he second only to the infamous one-eyed cleric mullah omar. is said to be a close associate

of osama bin laden himself. he is has been described of the father of the roadside bomb. he has been so incredibly allusive that we couldn't uncover a single confirmed photograph of the man. this capture is significant. for what it means in terms of taking him off the battlefield and for all the taliban intel he could reveal, we have team fox coverage of this development tonight. connor powell is in afghanistan tonight with the update on the fierce battle raging against taliban forces. first to mike emanuel live at the pentagon tonight covering the capture. mike, they have been -- they have really been hoping that this guy could lead to some other big terror figures. what do we know? >> well, shep, absolutely. in fact, i asked the former head of the cia's bin laden unit about that here is his take. >> well, certainly if there are people in the taliban hierarchy who know bin laden's exact position, mullah baradar would be one of them. the question is will the mullah give up mullah omar and osama bin laden, two key associates. the question is also at this

point now that he has been captured, it's been widely publicized that he has been captured mullah omar and osama bin laden go under ground, shep? >> shepard: good question. what's the immediate impact of this arrest? what are they saying? >> expected to be huge especially in the war in afghanistan because this was a day-to-day operations guy of the taliban. so we expect that they will be in disarray short-term. eventually he will be in place. for now, a big victory for the u.s. military in afghanistan. >> shepard: we have been trying to work with the pakistanis for a long time. is this a break? does this say something new about our intelligence-sharing? >> the white house certainly thinks so. they have been talking about how they have been trying to get the pakistanis more to play ball. they think giving this guy up and working with him on interrogation is a huge step forward for the pakistani-u.s. reels and a good sign for the overall fight against terrorism, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel live at the pentagon tonight. mike, thank you. the man at the center of this actually gave emailed interview last year to "newsweek" magazine. journalists asked what he thought about more u.s. forces coming to afghanistan?

he seemed to welcome it at the time. here is what he wrote: and in response to a question about whether he would consider peace talks he wrote: our basic problem with the americans is that they have attacked our country. they are offering talks, hoping that the mujahideen surrender before them. we see no benefit for the country and islam in such kind of talks. not a whole lot of talking going on in southern afghanistan where thousands of coalition and afghan forces are trying to secure a taliban strong hold. u.s. marines report taliban fighters seem to be growing more disorganize today. reportedly replacing coordinated attacks with hit and run strikes. militants reportedly tried to use rocket propelled grenades to bring down one of these off spray aircraft, one like this but they failed. coalition forces say they are keeping up the pressure.

[explosion] >> shepard: a mortar team provided some support for coalition forces with mortars that lit up the night sky. those blasts were not much compared to this one. [explosion] that that explosion courtesy of british troops detonating homemade bombs in their way. part of process is coalition forces fight their way across the town of marjah. connor powell is our correspondent. embed with the marines 3-6 india company. is he streaming live near marjah. connor? >> shepard, after making small incremental gains into the city of marjah. meesh and military commanders are pleased with the progress they have made today. they say thousands of u.s. marines and afghan soldiers have pushed deeper into this city. now taliban snipers are still harassing the coalition forces as they push into marjah. it is not the organized effort that it was just a few days ago. we saw on saturday and sunday

and monday when we were embedded with india company of the 3-6 marines we saw coordinated attacks where the taliban were trying to draw u.s. marines and troops into a fire fight and trying to flank them. apparently it was snipers taking pop shots and running off when they were engaged by marines. overall, the marine commanders say today was a very successful day in comparison to the past few. the big problems still are the roadside bombs, the ieds. they are still littered all over the city on bridges, roads, in doorways and windows. one u.s. marine was killed today by a roadside bomb. but on the positive side, marine commanders say they are starting to get a lot of help from local afghans in identifying where these roadside bombs are. they say that will help prevent the loss of life on the marine side and on the afghan civilian side but it also demonstrates just how much support was in the city of marjah there is for this operation of clearing out the taliban. marine commanders we spoke to said this is a really, really positive sign that it shows just

how much the taliban is hated within the city of marjah and just how welcomed these forces are in liberating the city. shepard? >> shepard: connor powell our eyes and ears on the front lines as the battle rages in marjah. connor, thanks very much. just in to fox news channel, rescue crews in washington state say they have, indeed, found the man who fell into the crater of mount st. helens but he is not alive. it was just about this time last night when reports came in about an accident at america's best known active volcano. a fellow climber says the 52-year-old took off his backpack and a layer of clothing and to pose for pictures near the rim of the crater when a snow overhang of sorts beneath him gave way and sent him falling what last night we thought was 500 feet. now we know he fell and slid and bounced off the side of that crater 1500 feet into the volcano. police today released the 911 call from those first moments.

>> shepard: as you can tell, the call dropped off. it was enough to get emergency crews on their way. at first they said they were hopeful after witnesses said they thought they heard the victim blowing on emergency whistle but poor conditions prevented from reaching him. eventually night fell and when a helicopter crew spotted the climber just a short time ago today, they said snow was covering the lower half of his body and that he was not moving. as i mentioned just moments ago, the sheriff say they have recovered his remains. we are told he was no stranger to this volcano that he scaled mount st. helens almost 70 times before. hillary clinton with a warning

now about just how serious the nuclear show down with iran is. the secretary of state is in the middle east tonight and she is talking about the possible i don't know -- consequences of iran getting their hands on nuclear weapons. now the white house is telling us how far it is prepared to go to keep that from happening. new and developing details next from the journalists of fox news. this is the fox report. [ male announcer ] every business day, bank of americaends nearly $3 billion dollars to individuals, institutions, schools, organizations and businesses in every corner of the economy. ♪ america. growing stronger. every day. ♪

>> shepard: all options are on the table. all of them when it comes to keeping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. that's what the white house reported today. it's refusing to rule out anything, even the military option. secretary of state hillary clinton with a warning about why the stakes are so high here. she says if iran does in fact build atomic bomb it could start what she calls a dangerous nuclear arms race in the middle east. right now she is on a trip through the middle east. she made that comment in saudi arabia. iran has fired back at something secretary clinton said

yesterday. their foreign minister claimed his country is not on the verge of becoming a military dictatorship, not at all. he said the americans are the real dictators. he says his nuclear program is, broken record, for peaceful purposes only. the latest comments from iran's president raised new concerns not just here but around the world. greg palkot is monitoring developments on this situation. he is live in our london newsroom tonight. greg, you know, president mahmoud ahmadinejad is making new threats now. >> absolutely. his press conference today carried on state television which we watched ratchetted up the rhetoric even more if that is possible as to the offer by the west to swap out uranium for enrichment, well the president dubbed that as unfair. besides, he said, we have new nuclear gear being prepared. as for what iran would do if new sanctions were slapped on it? here is his cryptic and alarming response. >> of course, if somebody wants to act against iran, our

response would not be like previous times. we will not advise or clarify or explain anymore. definite counter action that will make them regret as usual. >> ahmadinejad did not say exactly what that counter action that retaliation would be by the way, shep. >> shepard: we let that just sit there or the u.s. and the allies responding in some way. >> they are responding in a couple of ways, shep. today fox news obtained a confidential letter which was sent by the ambassador from u.s., france, and russia to the u.n. nuclear wash doll agency the iaea. in this letter the ambassadors first of all defend that nuke swap offer. then they go on to say they note with concern what they describe as iran's escalation and that it undermines the confidence of the international community. those, shep, are, in fact, just words. probably most significant, front and center at the bottom of the letter a signature from that russian representative with a french on one side, the u.s. on another. getting international powers on

board, of course, key to this diplomatic play with iran. shep? >> shepard: greg palkot in london this evening. greg, thanks very much. you know, iran has what it may believe are some bargaining chips. it's telling the united states it may allow a family visit for three americans, the country has held since last summer. the head of iran's high council for human rights says his office got a request from the families of the detained americans. he says officials in iran are considering the request and suggested there was a good chance that they would be approved. but at the same meeting the official also claimed that iran is safeguarding human rights, something learn leaders say is really quite preposterous. iran accuses the three americans of spying. their families say they crossed into iran by mistake while hiking in northern iraq's kurt stan kurdistan region. a bomb went off at a major american bank in greece. it happened at j.p. morgan bank in greece. no injuries. minor damage. greece is in the middle of a

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>> shepard: now the whole big mess is going to cost american workers money. ed in midst of massive recalls of u.s.-made cars the japanese automaker toyota announcing today it will halt production at two of its american plants in the coming days. it's a temporary measure.

toyota says it will idol assembly plants in san antonio and gorge town, kentucky with san antonio closing the weeks of march 15th and april 12th and georgetown, kentucky halting production on february 26th and possibly three more days in march and april. all of this is happening after the company recalled millions of vehicles due to the sticking gas pedals and temporarily suspended sales while working on a fix. that left dealers with a whole lot more unsold cars. the company hoping to sell some of those vehicles before it, well, makes any more of them. peter barnes from the fox business network is with us from the washington newsroom. how is that going to effect toyota workers in those towns? i guess they are out. >> for now toyota says the workers at these plants will be retained and will be paid during these production shutdowns. no layoffs. workers will also receive additional training during this down time. as you mentioned, the company does not want to build up any excess inventory of its cars right now as it struggles to get

its other cars fixed. the company's u.s. sales fell 16% last month and there are still plenty of unsold vehicles sitting in toyota show rooms right now, shep. >> shepard: at least they are going to get paid. the u.s. government is trying to find out what twoit knew and when it knew regarding the pedal problems. >> that's right. the transportation department announced today that it is formally demanding documents related to toyota's recalls here in the u.s. to find out if the automaker conducted three of its recalls in a timely manner within five days of discovering a defect as required by law. the feds want the company to explain how and when it learned of the defects in these millions of vehicles. the feds are under fire from consumer groups that say they haven't forcefully acted enough to fix these car problems. toyota's president could address some of this when he gives a briefing on the recalls tomorrow in tokyo, shep. >> shepard: peter barnes in d.c. this evening. peter, thank you. less than one hour before president john f. kennedy's assassination, a teenager filmed

some video of the president. and today for the very first time, we're seeing that video. a museum in texas has just released this amateur footage. take a look here. it's a little shaky. the guy who filmed it 15 years old at the time. we're told his dad dropped him off at love field in dallas with the family's home movie camera. and you can see air force 1, the president and jackie kennedy there and vice president lyndon johnson. here is the part showing jfk again. slowed down, so you can get a look at him there the man who took this film has given it to the sixth floor museum in dallas which chronicles jfk's assassination and legacy. the last time the government approved a permit for construction of a power plant the son of sam serial killer was just getting used to his new life in jail. the dallas cowboys were champion of the super bowl 12. the bee gees were making the charts. plan to go nuclear. it's a cross with him. it's about a nuclear power plant

for the first time in about three decades. and the concerns it could raise even as the president says he is keeping the job hunt alive. thank you, bee gees. ♪ staying alive ♪

>> shepard: more than two hundred miles above the earth astronauts are view of our planet. crews on board the international space station are said to take a

first spacewalk of the mission less than two hours from now. they are scheduled to put the finishing touches on that station's new observation deck. we're told this 7 window domed thing will provide a 360-degree view and back here in the united states fox news is getting an inside look at how nasa trains astronauts to step out in space. phil keating is live in our florida newsroom tonight. hey, phil. >> hi, shep. when every space mission costs $500 million have astronauts up above us make a mistake basically that is not an acceptable option. that's why months and years of training happens at houston's johnson space center to make sure every space man and woman is fully prepared and safe. >> if you are ready -- >> before any astronaut goes extra vehicular, here she first enters the virtual reality world of the international space station in the lab at houston's johnson space center. >> you can hand over hand. >> here i learned that early concept of what is up and what

is down do not apply in the void of space. hand eye coordination is very difficult. but it's the most important skill to avoid multi-million-dollar mistakes. the first layer that the astronauts wear is this. it is the thermal undergarment which is basically what you would put on before you go skiing or snowboarding. the second layer that the astronauts wear is one of these. and now i'm actually starting to feel like a space man. this is the liquid cooling garment. so water will actually flow through this and essentially keep the astronauts from being overheated. and the third layer and the final layer for the astronauts is this. the mark 3 prototype space suit. this would actually be attached to the lunar or mars recovery and the astronauts would slip in before they start walking out on the surface. >> it's quite complicated. slide in. it's not exactly easy to get into this thing. and what do you, it's all about mobility. so space suits of today and the future feature 360 degrees of

rotation. >> now that particular space suit a little bit more advanced than the one the two space walkers will be wearing tonight. equally important. here on earth there is pressure. that keeps your body and organs together. if you are up in space without a pressurized space suit your lungs stop functioning, all of your cells start expanding and the boiling point drops down to 98 degrees fahrenheit. that is the boiling point becomes your personal temperature. not a pleasant way to go. that's why every astronaut is so intune with things. there are absolutely no risks on those space walk. >> shepard: phil keating with his michael dodukakis moment. it will live in infamy. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. president obama on the job hunt today. not really, is he visiting a training center for electrical workers in maryland. and announcing plans to build the first nuclear power plant here in the united states in three decades.

the president says he is offering $8 billion in federal loan guarantees to help build the facility in georgia. >> the plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years. and some 800 permanent jobs, well paying permanent jobs in the years to come. and this is only the beginning. my budget proposes tripling the loan guarantees we provide to help safe, clean, nuclear facilities. >> shepard: critics are now saying that could end up being a bad deal for taxpayers because the nuclear industry has a record of running up big bills and not paying back the loans. we have team fox coverage on the job hunt tonight. rick leventhal on how soccer could put hundreds of americans back to work. first of the task at hand, let's go nuclear. major, the government says construction on this new plant may not even start for a couple of years. >> the regulatory commission has to approve all applications for

creation of a nuclear power plant. the one in georgia in burke georgia by the southern company, that application is in. it will not be approved until late 2011 or possibly early 2012. the other applications will flow after that even if it's approved in 201010, shep, the construction won't be completed until 2017, which means the 800 jobs president obama talked, about the permanent ones, that's when they will take effect, 3500 construction jobs in between. grave work going on right now but not too many jobs. >> shepard: democrats talking nuclear power. that's some switch from my childhood. safety concerns and questions what to do with the nuclear waste. >> right now, shepard, this is what we do. spent nuclear rods out of the power plant and put them in bore rick acid sometime six months sometimes five years sometimes longer. then they're taken out of that bore rick acid pool and buried underground all near the nuclear power plant itself. it's called on sight storage. carol browner the energy and environment czar here at the white house told me it's safe. let's listen.

>> nuclear waste is currently being stored on site. it is in concrete, incased, very safe. the secretary chew has announced a blue ribbon commission of prominent individuals to look at sort of what the long term disposal. >> long term disposal, shepard, that means a permanent place yuck that mountain was supposed to be it in nevada. $36 billion in taxes were levied on the nuclear power industry to build that. this administration is closing it down. so for storage long term all we have is a blue ribbon commission there are many of those in this town. >> shepard: we love the blue ribbons. this has to be seen as a reach-out to republicans. i mean one more reach-out to republicans, right? >> it is clearly that and the two georgia senators, ♪ surprisingly both republicans, saxby chambliss and johnny isakson said they embrace the president's call for loan guarantees, republicans have been encouraging the president to move in this direction is it going to be enough to put together a climate change compromise? we will have to wait to see.

>> shepard: major garrett at the white house tonight. good of you. sports one of the most profitable industries depending on the sport really. pro-soccer team looking to fill hundreds of part-time jobs. the new york red bulls. what did you say? i said the new york red bulls and hosting a job fair right now at the team's brand new arena. i wonder where that is? it's billing it as the first true european style soccer facility in all of the country. 25,000 seats. $200 million. and, get this, major league soccer is part of a sports industry worth an estimated $213 billion. that's more than twice the size of the u.s. auto industry. seven times the size of the movie industry. rick leventhal is back on the job and on the job hunt tonight in harrison, new jersey. that's where they're putting the new york red bulls or whatever it is? >> it's only 10 miles outside of manhattan, shepard. so i expect to see you at a lot of games. >> shepard: that will happen. they cut my mike, sorry. i will be there. i will be there. >> all right. well, you know, they were

expecting a thousand people here to apply for these jobs and more than 2,000, about 2500 actually showed up and a bunch of them are still here filling out applications. some of them standing for hours in the cold and snow for part-time jobs that range from security guards to concession workers to kitchen staff to cleaning crews. clearly, there are loot of people willing to stand for hours in inclement weather for a shot at some city paychecks. >> i wouldn't let this stop me. i need the job. i have been out of work for a long time. i mean years. i have got to find something. >> what kind of work are you looking for. >> whatever they have available because times are hard. whatever is available. i'm ready to go. >> well, all new hires will attend a short four hour version of red bull college, shepard, where they will learn the company's customer-friendly culture. >> shepard: won't they? what is this to do for the local community? are they speaking of it? >> well, they are saying it could be huge. when you have up to 25,000 fans

attending all of these home games, you have locals getting first crack at these jobs. the mayor of harrison says this is a home run because this is -- will supplement many people's income since most of the red bulls games will be played on saturday night so they won't interfere with monday through friday jobs. >> shepard: red bull, delicious. rick leventhal, welcome back to work. thank you. for jobs across the nation go to our web site. you should go to our web site and stay there it's foxnews.com. click on the job hunt link there at the top of the page. see the arrow. show you where to go right above that dude terrorist defender. whatever that is. job openings, information on where folks are now hiring and where folks are hiring. on the job hunt only at foxnews.com. one of the survivors of that deadly campus shooting in north alabama last week now telling his story. and sharing details of what it was like to be in the room when he said that the biology professor just began firing.

the survivor an associate professor of the university alabama, huntsville. here is a photo that the school had on its site. he says they were about half an hour into this deparliament meeting when the suspect got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. she started with the one closest to her, he said. and went down the row shooting her targets in the head. this man says she continued shooting until the gun finally jammed. the survivors rushed her as the story goes. pushing her out of the room and barricaded the door. prosecutors now accuse this woman, amy bishop of killing three people, wounding three others. she faces a capital murder charge. police say they're close to making arrest in sunday's church shooting in northern california. and now we're getting our first look at the tense moments inside that sanctuary. it happened in richmond, about 20 miles outside of san francisco. police say three men in hooded sweat shirts walked into the church shortly after 12 noon as the choir sang the men walked up and down the aisles looking at

the congress grey gantz in their pews and then one guy opened fire. ♪ [gunfire] >> shepard: police say about 100 people were inside that church at the time. the bullets hit two brothers a 19-year-old and a 14-year-old. we're told each is out of the hospital tonight. each said to be cooperating with investigators who are looking into whether the shooting was in any way gang related. they have big gang problems there. it's one of north korea's most closely guarded secrets. the health of the dear leader kim jong il. today the rogue nation is celebrating his birthday 68 today amid new questions about really whether there is anything left there. and reports that he relies on rare and outlawed remedies just to stay alive. details ahead on that. plus yet noreen to party in new orleans as if you needed one.

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>> shepard: kim jong il, today in his country racked by famine and figure skaters performed a birthday tribute to the man who called fearlessly brilliant commander. that would be kim jong il. dictator of the nuclear nation of north korea. he marked 68 years here on the big blue ball. at least we assumed he marked it he was nowhere to be found. even as people set off fireworks and celebration and attended tributes in his honor. he was hidden away somewhere or something. an indicator of how serious his health problems may be. his absence is not the only clue we are getting. rick folbaum is with us now.

do we have any idea how he is doing? do we know if he is alive or what. >> we really have absolutely no clue. a lot of people say that he is sick, experts are fairly certain that he is not doing well. he did have a stroke a couple years back. these are some official photos that were released showing him up and about. dapper as -- >> shepard: love the jumpsuit. no way to know when those pictures were taken. is he dying soon? a lot of speculation about his success sore. his successor. his son may become a figure head. nukes controlled by military officials once he is dead. >> shepard: the nukes, speaking of those, what's going on with that? there was talk of six party talks that was like yesterday. >> six party talks rugs sharks china and the other country these have been on hold since last year when the north said that's it, we are out of here. that's when victor chaw said that north korea presents the most dangerous situation in international relations today.

>> as long as you have the regime that you do in north korea, that controls its people the way it does, that throws its citizens in the way it does, the harder it's going to be to get this regime to give up their nuclear weapons. >> that said, cha says the resumption on those six-nation talks could resume sometime later this year. >> shepard: back to the dear leader now. it's true that north korea officials have been spotted buying health remedies, some kind of weird health remedies? >> some might call them remedies, others might call them gross. bile extracted from bear gallbladders. these are traditional but rare oriental medicines and they are not cheap, shep. one of kim jong il's sons have been spotted paying more than $600,000 for some of this stuff. obviously needs some health care reform over there as well. >> shepard: they need something or other. good grief. rick folbaum, thanks, pal.

whoa, weather alert. guess what? it's winter. much of the eastern half of the nation dealing with another nasty winter blast. it snowed here all day. northeast is getting the worst of it take a look at pictures from times square. the snow fell all day long. it never stopped. but it never stuck. parts of the city did get as much as three inches. if it doesn't stick, is it doesn't count. domenica davis live in the weather center. how are we looking now. >> looking at this storm moving through new england. it's finally -- finally we can talk about new england snow storm in the winter. this pressure is to the north of long island of. it's pushing up to canada by late tonight, midnight it will push its way into canada and take all this snow with it. it is winding down. but, in the meantime, boston to portland, you are going to see some significant snowfall on the order of 3 to 6, a large swath. we could see some isolated areas that get 6 plus, close to a foot mark in places like western massachusetts and parts of the vermont area, shep. >> shepard: forever.

it's been like one after another. is there anything else? on your map it would be back over there? >> we actually do have a couple of things going on on the map for the next couple of days. and what we are going so see -- if my futurecast will come up, i will show you. there we go. this system we have lake-effect snow that's going to keep going over the next couple of days. and then this system by wednesday and thursday, it forms over the rockies, and then, shep, it's going to move down through the missouri valley by thursday. this is another fast-moving storm. so it arrives in the ohio valley by friday and saturday. this will be another where we get a lot of snow but not a lot of accumulation it is going to cause for some tricky travel for the ohio valley and the manhattan this weekend. >> shepard: domenica? >> shep? >> shepard: thank you. >> you are welcome. >> shepard: all right. terrified townspeople run screaming from an enormous landslide and that's caught on tape. nice transition, smith, as we go around the world in 80 seconds.

italy. [shouting] >> shepard: the mudslide actually splitting the side of a hill. heavy rains causing many landslides across southern italy. authorities evacuating nearly 200 residents of the town where this one happened. no injuries reported. czech republic. surgeons removing a foot long surgical tool from the abdomen. doctors operated on her five months ago and somehow left that thing in her. she said when she initially told the doctor about her excruciating pain. the guy told her to take some pills. a hospital administrator says the staff involved will be disciplined. china, a zoo in an eastern province launching the year of the tiger with a contest. asking residents and visitors to name four tiger cubs. it's to help raise awareness for the protection of the rare south china tiger. greece. ♪ >> it's the annual flour war in

a fishing village west of athens. folks there doning goggles and plastic suits and going at it downtown. some of the flour is colored. it makes a mess. greek's day a way to release frustrations especially now with the country's terrible economic shape. that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. in new orleans, and across the gulf coast, it's let the good times roll. >> oh, man, i think this city is on the roll. it is definitely going to go straight through -- >> shepard: straight through the sky. mardi gras, last chance to let go before lent begins and the party that's been raging since the saints won the super bowl more than a week ago. it's kept going despite the chilly for new orleans anyway weather, 50s for the temperatures. saints fans joking with the big win hell froze over. and one guy waving the flask says he has plenty of antifreeze

antifreeze. i wish i were there. the indiana democrat evan bayh says he is leaving the senate because he doesn't like the partisan politics in the d.c. but republicans say that's not the real reason he is going. so who is right? we'll report. you decide. coming up, hey and o'reilly is just like 12 minutes away. hang tight. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid brand ♪

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>> shepard: new drama for democrats as they try to hold on to both houses of congress. they suddenly need a candidate to replace indiana senator evan bayh who announced yesterday he is not running for reelection. the deadline to qualify for the primary was today and no democrats made the cut. campaign carl cameron is live in d.c. tonight. i mean, now what? >> well, first thing is bye says he is not going to run for

president though with mr. obama in the latest cnn poll says 52% say he doesn't deserve reelection. evan may need to rethink that one a little bit. now for democrats they didn't have anybody go on the ballot there was a woman tamyra d'ippolito who said 6:00 this morning she had the 4500 petitions to get on the ballot. she didn't. she only had 112. no one is on the democratic ballot. that means they will be able to have a no, ma'am nalgt nominating convention sometime in june. there are probably three mayor's who are lickly to run for the democratic nod. that's how they answer it, shep. >> shepard: what is the sense of what that means for their chances of hanging on to that seat. >> it weakens it indiana is a very republican seat. mr. obama was the first to win it for president since lyndon johnson. for bayh it 12 years ago he took a temporary retirement. dan coats was the republican incumbent back then. is he now on the ballot. he did get the 4500 necessary signatures. that means he is on the ballot. there are at least another four

other republicans valueying for it that will be a big primary. trying to get the magic 10 to retake the senate now they are looking at eight. >> shepard: former president clinton and many members of congress attending the funeral today of congressman jack murtha. our top story on a fox trip across america. pennsylvania. political leaders, friends, and family remembering the long-time congressman at a church in johnstown. murtha served for 36 years. he was the head of the house appropriations defense subcommittee. he died last week after complications from gallbladder surgery. california. a meeting 42 years in the making. a woman from florida who bought a bracelet to support a vietnam prisonerrer of war finally meeting that p.o.w. in san diego. >> sir, sherri. >> how are you? >> it's so good to meet you. >> shepard: former air force colonel says he never considered himself a hero. >> we couldn't believe that

people didn't -- that people even cared about us. >> shepard: she wore that bracelet for six years until the soldier was released. and in san francisco, chris downy lost his sight two years ago but he hasn't let that stop him from being an architect. he use as special printer that creates braille-style raised dots to read blunts and he uses a kids toil to steady shapes. downy says is he currently working on a medical center expansion. >> in architecture there is a misconception that there is this one person off in the back room that does everything. the reality of it is it's team work. >> shepard: a coworker says he visualizes space in a very special way and that's a fox watch across america. now, baseball's iron man, cal ripken jr. next, we will show you how his mlb icon is getting into another great american pass pass time.

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quick buck or maybe replenish the killer baseball collection your mom threw away? check this out, the topps baseball card company today announcing it's randomly inserting a million vintage cards into this year's packs. among them a couple of $20,000 mickey man tell rookies, some 1957 hammer and hank aarons and a few '87 cal ripken juniors with the silly wood paneling. today on "studio b" we asked the man cal ripken who he likes this coming season. >> there have been so many players that have switched teams. i don't know if i recognize the angels right now. >> shepard: thank goodness. >> the yankees certainly have to be some of the favorites. philadelphia is going to be good. i like. so things boston has done. you know, i hate predictions because that's. >> shepard: you always dnches have you got to play the 162 game schedule. >> shepard: cal ripken is a spokesperson for tops they pay him for that we asked him for a man tell rookie, he said no. updating fox top stories

tonight. we told marines fighting in the strong hold of marjah have now linked one more u.s. forces dropped into town by helicopter. and sheriff's deputies in southern washington state report they have recovered the remains of a 52-year-old hiker who fell about this time last night into the volcano crater of mount st. helens. and on this day in the year 1923, the famed british archaeologists howard carter became the first man in more than 3,000 years to enter the burial chamber of king tut. as egyptian pharaohs go tut wasn't known at the time but with most of the other tunes discovered carter kept digging and after a few years he hit paydirt in the tune piles of gold, jewels and tut's perfectly mummified body. there were stories of a curse. in fact few people on the expedition later died under unusual circumstances but today after two years of d.n.a. tests we learned tut himself likely died at the age